Emu

The Emu is a large, flightless and incredibly aggressive bird found in arid shrublands and deserts.

Taming

Emu can be tamed wild, randomly join your colony in an event, or bought pre-tamed from a trading ship. Emus will always turn manhunter on a failed tame attempt.

Summary

Emus are pen animals. Once tamed, pen animals cannot and do not need to be trained any further. But if left outside of a pen or caravan hitching spot, pen animals will eventually roam outside your colony. Making a caravan is not required to tie animals to a caravan hitching spot.

A female emu produces 1 emu egg every 3.33 day when fertilized. Emus will not lay unfertilized eggs.

Analysis

Emus are one of many egg-laying animals that are inferior to chickens. 2 hens eat less food than 1 emu, and each hen lays 3.33 eggs for every emu egg. While an emu egg is worth 2 chicken eggs, a single hen remains superior for egg production, let alone 2. Hens do not need to be fertilized, which adds a further advantage.

While chickens cannot be found in the wild, the dromedary is superior to the emu. They can be found in all biomes emu reside in. Dromedaries produce more food (in the form of milk), both per day and per nutrition fed. They are easier to tame, won't go manhunter on a failed tame, and can be ridden on a caravan. So if dromedaries are available, there's little point in keeping an emu pet.

Therefore, emus are mostly relegated to hunting fodder, the occasional manhunter pack, and to add a little ambiance to the desert biomes.

Training

This animal can be trained as follows:

Guard:
Attack:
Rescue:
Haul:

*As of version 1.1.2610, all animals can be tamed. The percentage of likelihood of success depends on factors such as the Animals Wildness Percentage, Pawn Handling Skill, and others. More information can be found on the animals page.

Health

Part Name	Health	Quantity	Coverage^[1]	Target Chance^[2]	Subpart of	Capacity^[3]	Effect if Destroyed/Removed
Body	36	1	100%	19%	N/A^[4]	-	Death
Tail	9	1	10%	10%	Body	-	-
Spine	22.5	1	5%	5%	Body	Moving	−100% Moving^[5]
Stomach	18	1	4%	4%	Body	Digestion	−50% Digestion
Heart	13.5	1	3%	3%	Body	Blood Pumping	Death
Lung	13.5	2	4%	4%	Body	Breathing	−50% Breathing. Death if both lost.
Kidney	13.5	2	3%	3%	Body	Blood Filtration	−50% Blood Filtration. Death if both lost.
Liver	18	1	5%	5%	Body	Digestion	−50% Digestion
Neck	22.5	1	20%	5%	Body	Eating Talking Breathing	Death
Head	22.5	1	75%	3.1%	Neck	-	Death
Skull	22.5	1	30%	1.8%	Head	-	Cannot be destroyed. Increasing Pain based on damage.
Brain	9	1	60%	2.7%	Skull	Consciousness	Death Damage always results in scarring.
Eye	9	2	12%	1.8%	Head	Sight	−25% Sight. −100% if both lost. Damage always results in scarring. 0% Hit Chance against Blunt damage.
Beak	18	1	25%	3.8%	Head	Eating Talking Manipulation	−100% Manipulation −90% Eating^[6]
Leg	27	2	10%	5%	Body	Moving	−50% Moving. −100% if both lost.
Foot	22.5	2	50%	5%	Leg	Moving	−50% Moving. −100% if both lost.

↑ Coverage determines the chance to hit this body part. It refers to the percentage of the super-part that this part covers, before its own sub-parts claim their own percentage. For example, if the base coverage of the super-part is 100%, and the coverage of the part is 20%, 20% of hits would hit the part, and 80% the super-part. If the part had its own sub-part with 50% coverage, the chances would be 10% sub-part, 10% part, 80% super part.
↑ Target Chance is the actual chance for each part to be be selected as the target when each part's coverage has been taken into account(I.E. Neck covers 7.5% of Torso but Head covers 80% of Neck so it actually has only a 1.5% chance to be selected). This is not pure hit chance, as different damage types propagate damage in different ways. See that page for details.
↑ Note that capacities can affect other capacities in turn. Only the primary effect is listed. See specific pages for details.
↑ This is the part that everything else connects to to be considered 'connected'.
↑ If Moving drops below 16% a pawn cannot move.
↑ Note that eating won't go below 10%.